Tag Archives: backup
Tarsnap Nagios checks
Posted by on January 23, 2011
While I have been using Tarsnap for a while now it is first recently I have gotten around to make Nagios monitor those backups. Given that I really don’t want to give the nagios user any actual access to my backups, I instead take the approach of having my backup script create a status file [...]
tarsnap bash-completion
Posted by on April 25, 2009
I’m currently trying out the Tarsnap backup solution (beta). Since it doesn’t come with a bash-completion of its own I’ve created one myself. I really can’t stand working with –long-options without proper completion. For now I maintain it as a “junk branch” in Launchpad. https://code.launchpad.net/~andol/+junk/tarsnap-completion UPDATE: http://bitbucket.org/andol/tarsnap-completion/ So far there is only the initial commit, [...]
My rdiff-backup PPA
Posted by on January 31, 2009
For my personal backups I usually prefer to use rdiff-backup. Since current Ubuntu versions doesn’t provide any packages from the recent stable branch of rdiff-backup I nowdays like to create my own debs. Also, rdiff-backup tends to work best if you have the same version on both ends of the backup. At first I maintained [...]
rdiff-backup bash-completion
Posted by on September 22, 2008
I use rdiff-backup for most of my private backups. It’s a great piece of software. I just wish it had its own bash-completions. rdiff-backup wiki: bash-completion (Problem solved.) Update October 6th: Now included in Debian (sid).
